The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-05-11
A Boston Letter.
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Bo>loN. MY What about business
Is it IL leely a, WIS expected last fall.
These are dacult questions to answer
We business men will say that trade la,
been good aat nothing like a boom that
SOM Kind, If goods are sold a fast A.
they can be made aud much more in Tie
SAM linz y near a can ct at II tie
demand for lumber i active; the iron
market {, r., booming than ~ months
aso. the cotton mills a. a rule arr full Of
orders AMI cotton goods are in no danger
Of being drug; woolcnS are dull and
some mills are curtailing production ana
none can make money AT the present
price Of wool and goods. the rcady-made
clothing hu>incsS has been sl;shtlyPyer-
done. there is less wheat in stock than a
year ago These appear to he the facts.
There is nothing that indicates the condi-
ton Of the business mind like the ri>e
and fall Of railroad stocks. In lsN5 con
fidcucc fled and n the result most small
bidders ran to the stock exchange aud
sold their railroad securities th> made
low prices When confidence began 10
feebly and slowly return, the value Of
stocks began To- ri>c slowly. This Wa>
not due 80 much To the advance in net
earnings OF dividends a. to the return OF
confidence. which >ent men Of moderate
means into the market to invest. ~ a
matter Of fact the market values Of adoz-
en of the leading stocks have advanced
quite 80 per cent since jun -. | >ay
a dozen hccau>c have seen iigures
What is true Of them j. true of MANY
others.
The most unpatriotic person in the
world i the tax -dodgcr ~ a rule he Is
not the active business man tut the fellow
who has inherited or married OF come in
to wealth by some equally indirect man
ner. Maine has some of them. \ few
days ago just before May l,t. which Is
valuation day in Massachusetts met
one Of them He left Maine and lived in
Boston until after Names valuation time
Here in Boston. the taN-dodger makes
his residence III t1c city from late IN oc-
tober until April 80. when he hurrieS to
some small town where taxes are low
several of these towns have been made
by dividing old towns for the special
benefit 81 the taX'dodeer- lheY are call
ed "club towns The present legislature
has nearly made one out Of the old town
Of Beverly. The dodgcr failed last year
because they did not put in money
enough. lh'' year 'hey Pui IN gooa
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err eat its annual dinner SATURDAY. after.
mon, ot tho Revora Thor. ,,oro ~
present A''''"S '''e INV itcu guests were
the venerable ex-senator Bradbury
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